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The most successful tyranny is not the one
that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the
awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable
that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an
outside.
Allan Bloom The Closing of the American
Mind

"This country, with its institutions,
belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow
weary of the existing government, they can exercise their
constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right
to dismember or overthrow it." - Abraham Lincoln, First
Inaugural

It is dangerous to be right
in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
--Voltaire--

Faith of
consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of the body depends only on type and polarity.
Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feeling is slavery
Hope of body is disease. [Gurdjieff]

Life is religion.
Life experiences reflect how one interacts with God. Those who are
asleep are those of little faith in terms of their interaction with
the creation. Some people think that the world exists for them to
overcome or ignore or shut out. For those individuals, the worlds
will cease. They will become exactly what they give to life. They
will become merely a dream in the "past." People who pay strict
attention to objective reality right and left, become the reality
of the "Future." [Cassiopaea
09-28-02]

May 9,
2003Today's edition ofBrought to You by
The Bush Junta, Produced and Directed by the CIA, based on an
original script by Henry Kissinger, with a cast of billions....The
"Greatest Shew on Earth," no doubt, and if you don't have a good
sense of humor, don't read this page! It is designed to reveal the
"unseen." If you can't stand the heat of Objective Reality, get out
of the kitchen!

Surveillance Bill Sails Through Senate
-The Senate yesterday overwhelmingly approved a bill intended
to close a legal loophole that lawmakers say prevented the FBI from
obtaining a warrant to conduct surveillance of terrorist suspect
Zacarias Moussaoui before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The
legislation, known as t

Surveillance Bill Sails Through Senate
-The Senate yesterday overwhelmingly approved a bill intended
to close a legal loophole that lawmakers say prevented the FBI from
obtaining a warrant to conduct surveillance of terrorist suspect
Zacarias Moussaoui before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The
legislation, known as the "Moussaoui fix," was approved 90 to 4. It
would make it easier for the FBI to seek warrants for wiretaps and
searches on non-Americans suspected of planning terrorist attacks,
by eliminating a requirement to show the suspect was connected to a
known terrorist group or a country that sponsors terrorism. The FBI
did not pursue a warrant to search Moussaoui's computer before the
Sept. 11 attacks because officials believed they could not show the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that he was tied to a
terrorist group or country that sponsored terrorism, senators said.
Moussaoui is charged with conspiring in the attacks. Moussaoui was
in custody on immigration charges when the attacks occurred. He has
denied being part of the Sept. 11 plot.

Gaza visitors must sign waiver in case army shoots
them -The Israeli
military yesterday began obliging foreigners entering the Gaza
Strip to sign waivers absolving the army from responsibility if it
shoots them. Visitors must also declare that they are not peace
activists. The move came hours before an autopsy on James Miller -
the British cameraman killed in a Gaza refugee camp - confirmed
that he was almost certainly killed by an Israeli soldier, despite
the army's assertions to the contrary. Yesterday, the British
government demanded an Israeli military police criminal
investigation into Miller's death and the shooting of another
Briton by the army in Gaza, Tom Hurndall, a peace
activist.

Mr Hurndall is in a coma with severe brain damage after
being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier last month as he
attempted to protect a small child from gunfire. The Foreign Office
minister, Mike O'Brien, called in the Israeli ambassador to London
to press the demand, which diplomatic sources portrayed as a
ratcheting up of pressure on the Israeli government. "On the basis
of the evidence we've seen, we feel this case is so serious that we
are asking for a military police investigation," said a Foreign
Office spokesperson.

The waiver to enter Gaza requires foreigners, including
United Nations relief workers, to acknowledge that they are
entering a danger zone and will not hold the Israeli army
responsible if they are shot or injured. The army document also
warns visitors they are forbidden from approaching the security
fences next to Jewish settlements or entering "military zones" in
Rafah refugee camp close to the Egyptian border where Miller was
shot dead on Saturday.

David Bloom's death tied to smallpox shot?
-Is the death of NBC News correspondent David Bloom during
Operation Iraqi Freedom the result of a vaccination he received
before the war? That question is being raised in connection with a
CBS News report which says the federal government is doing a sudden
about-face and will let states stop administering the high-risk
smallpox shot. David Bloom The 39-year-old Bloom, who was embedded
with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division outside Baghdad and
co-anchor of the ''Today'' show weekend editions, died of an
apparent blood clot several weeks after getting both the smallpox
and anthrax vaccines.

Cheney firm paid millions in bribes to Nigerian
official -The reputation of
Halliburton, the oil industry giant once run by Vice-President Dick
Cheney, took a new blow yesterday when it admitted one of its
subsidiaries had paid millions of dollars to a Nigerian official in
return for tax breaks. The company said it had informed the US
securities and exchange commission (SEC) of about $2.4m
(£1.5m) in improper payments to the official, who had posed as
a tax consultant, it claimed.

The payments emerged during an audit. Halliburton said
they "clearly violated" the company's code of conduct and "several"
employees had been fired. The SEC is investigating, and the firm
could face a tax bill of up to $5m in Nigeria. It is the second
controversy involving the firm within a week. Earlier, army
officials acknowledged that the company's subsidiary Kellogg Brown
and Root had a far broader role in the Iraqi oil industry than
previously disclosed, encompassing not just fighting fires but
operating oilfields.

Meanwhile Richard Perle, an influential Pentagon adviser,
was accused of a new conflict of interests after it was revealed
that he had briefed investors on how to profit from a potential war
with Iraq or North Korea after attending a classified intelligence
meeting on the two countries. The defence policy board, of which Mr
Perle was then chairman, received the information from the defence
intelligence agency in February.

Three weeks later he gave a talk to Goldman Sachs
investors, delivered as part of a conference call, titled
Implications of an Imminent War: Iraq Now. North Korea
Next?

A source who was at the defence intelligence agency
briefing told the Los Angeles Times: "That bothered me because the
title of the talk made it sound like he had the inside track on
what we were going to do." The Los Angeles Times broke the
story.

Mr Perle, who declined to comment yesterday, resigned as
chairman of the board in March after bad publicity concerning his
links with the failed telecoms firm Global Crossing, which was
seeking a favourable ruling from the Pentagon; his directorship of
the UK intelligence firm Autonomy; and his meeting with Adnan
Khashoggi, a Saudi arms dealer, and another businessman who wanted
to influence Washington's Iraq policies. He remains a member of the
defence policy board, a group of private citizens whose nominations
are approved by Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of
defence.

At the same classified meeting, on February 27, the board
received a presentation about military communications systems, the
LA Times reported. Mr Perle's venture capital firm, Trireme
Partners, has been exploring this area for possible investments.
The revelations will increase the pressure on Mr Perle.

Neocons dance a Strauss waltz Is United States
foreign policy being run by followers of an obscure German Jewish
political philosopher whose views were elitist, amoral and hostile
to democratic government? Suddenly, political Washington is abuzz
about Leo Strauss, who arrived in the US in 1938 and taught at
several major universities before his death in 1973. "Strauss
thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by
an external threat," Drury wrote in her book. "Following
Machiavelli, he maintains that if no external threat exists, then
one has to be manufactured. Had he lived to see the collapse of the
Soviet Union, he would have been deeply troubled because the
collapse of the 'evil empire' poses a threat to America's inner
stability.

The two faces of Rumsfeld -
2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell
nuclear reactors to North Korea
2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of
evil and a target for regime change

Oil scandal billionaire tells French court of
bribes -
Iraqi-born Briton describes huge kickbacks. An Iraqi-born British
billionaire told a French court yesterday how he had paid millions
of pounds in kickbacks to French oil executives. Nadhmi Auchi, 65,
reputedly Britain's seventh-richest man, is one of 37 company
administrators and business partners accused of being involved in
France's biggest postwar financial scandal in which the oil firm,
now TotalFinaElf, allegedly paid out huge sums in bribes and
backhanders to expand its empire.

May 8,
2003Today's edition ofBrought to You by
The Bush Junta, Produced and Directed by the CIA, based on an
original script by Henry Kissinger, with a cast of billions....The
"Greatest Shew on Earth," no doubt, and if you don't have a good
sense of humor, don't read this page! It is designed to reveal the
"unseen." If you can't stand the heat of Objective Reality, get out
of the kitchen!

STOPPING A POLICE STATE -Prof. Francis
Boyle, University of Illinois Law School, drafted articles of
impeachment against Bush, Cheney et al. in January, 2003. Since
then, he notes, "it's gotten much worse." Boyle exposes the role of
the Federalist Society in the Bush administration, and their
drafting of Patriot Act I and Patriot Act II: a police state. He
discusses the International Criminal Court (ICC) case being
prepared against Blair and others in the British government for
aggressive war on Iraq. Britain was a signer of the International
Criminal Court. The Bush administration knowingly repudiated
Clinton’s signature as an ICC member, cognizant that it
planned an unprovoked attack on a UN member (Afghanistan and then,
Iraq) and didn’t want the ICC breathing down their necks,
Boyle observes. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al. will likely be
indicted in the ICC trial as accessories to Blair’s crimes.
Prof. Boyle also brings us up to date on the Impeach Bush
campaigns. Who in Congress will bring impeachment charges against
this rogue administration?

Swiss Re Says Silverstein Concocted Case to Cover
His Error -In a brief filed
today with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit, Swiss Re provides detailed, unequivocal evidence not
previously presented to the public that within 24 hours after the
tragic loss of nearly 2,800 lives, World Trade Center leaseholder
Larry Silverstein developed plans to spin the facts for the sole
purpose of maximizing his personal financial gain.

23% Of Florida Third Graders Flunk Reading
Test -No Floridian can
feel comfortable with the recent news that 43,260 public-school
third-graders -- 23 percent of that class -- failed the FCAT
reading portion. To let those children move on to the fourth grade
without positive proof that they can read would be irresponsible.
Volumes of research show that children who have not mastered
reading by the end of the third grade tend to have problems for the
remainder of their formal education. Sending a child who can't read
on to the next grade is the equivalent of throwing a person who
can't swim into deeper and deeper water.

Iraq's future worries Saudis.... [The Americans]... see
all Arabs as prey ' -The situation in
Iraq continues to alarm its southern neighbour Saudi Arabia, the
BBC's Heba Saleh reports from Riyadh. Despite being a close
American ally, Saudi Arabia was one of the most vocal opponents of
the war against Iraq. The Saudi Government continues to watch
warily developments in its northern neighbour. It is concerned Iraq
might descend into chaos or even fail to stay united, leading to
the creation of a new Shia state across the largely Sunni kingdom's
border. Another worry for the Saudi authorities has been the rising
anti-American sentiment within the country. Some are disconcerted
by American talk about creating a new Middle East in which Iraq
would serve as a beacon for democracy. "Democracy as understood by
Westerners is not to be desired," says Soliman, a young graduate of
a religious college. "Their democracy means applying the majority
view, but in Islam, matters should be decided according to the
Koran and the tradition of the prophet Mohammed and not according
to the view of the people." But in the markets of Riyadh, it is
clear it is not only the religious conservatives who mistrust the
Americans. A woman I met in the marketplace said she thought there
was a "Jewish plan". "It's even in the Koran," she said. "I don't
know what's going to happen to Saudi. Something will happen maybe
in five years, six years." A man I spoke to was equally
distrustful. "We hope the Americans will not get to the kingdom,"
he said. "May they never come to the kingdom or approach it. "But
sure they have designs on the kingdom, they see all Arabs as
prey."

Cats 'farmed for skins in EU' -BBC
News has seen evidence which suggests that cats are being farmed
for their skins in the European Union. It is thought that tens of
thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of cat and dog skins are
traded in Europe each year. Campaigners say that now is the time
for national governments or the European Commission to act. Europe,
it seems, is a magnet for cat and dog fur. Cat blankets, so the
aficionados say, are good for rheumatism. Dog pelts are often
labelled misleadingly and sold as the fur of some exotic, even
mythical beast. Since the US has banned the trade of cat and dog
skins, the European market has expanded. A video seen by BBC
correspondent Tim Franks shows one Belgian furrier displaying a
blanket he says was made from cats farmed in Belgium. What is more,
he says that stray cats and dogs are rounded up and skinned. That
would seem to contradict the assertion from the officials who help
run the EU at the European Commission that there is no cat or dog
farming inside the union.

Baghdad blogger re-appears -An Iraqi web
logger knocked offline by the war in Iraq has resurfaced. During
the early days of the conflict, the Dear Raed web log was avidly
read by thousands of web users keen to find out how it was changing
the lives of ordinary Iraqis. Now the conflict is over the web log,
or blog, has re-appeared to give people another intimate glimpse of
life during wartime. To make up for the days when he could not
post, the Dear Raed web logger has updated his journal with 15
entries covering the invasion of Baghdad and the immediate
aftermath. Baghdad calling Salam Pax became well-known among web
users in the opening weeks of the Iraq conflict for his web log.
The web log stopped being updated on 24 March as the war approached
Baghdad and electrical power and telephone lines were knocked out.
But even throughout the days when he could not get his words on to
the internet, the man behind Dear Raed has been recording his
thoughts and this week managed to get them on to the web. "War
sucks big time. Don't let yourself ever be talked into having one
waged in the name of your freedom," reads one of the most recent
entries.

Good day, fellow serfs -It
makes me wonder if, as a group, Americans are more like a flock of
bleating sheep, or a herd of lowing cattle. As individuals, are we
more like robots, or whipped dogs?

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